Toy Story 3 (movie)

Virtual-reality firm Oculus is making a move into original‎ film content. The manufacturer of the much-anticipated Rift headset is expected to announce at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday that it is launching a new unit called Story Studio and has hired Pixar veteran Saschka Unseld to run it. Working with a team of about 10 staffers and contractors, Unseld will develop and produce an unspecified number of animated shorts in the VR format. VR essentially allows a viewer wearing a headset to inhabit a film's entire world, instead of the more traditional method of simply watching a rectangular display. The move is a small but notable step in the bid to bring the...

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Virtual-reality firm Oculus is making a move into original‎ film content.
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In only...

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The star of last summer's "The Wolverine" demonstrated his singing...

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"Frozen,"...

The Walt Disney Co. is pushing back "The Good Dinosaur," the Pixar movie that had been set for release in 2014, making next year the animation studio's first without a feature film since 2005.
"The Good Dinosaur," which was to have...

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With the film's release date...

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